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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1917
Page
9
A U S Department of Labor representative in Boston at the post office and sub-treasury building will accept applications by mail or in person for work. The employment service and Civil Service Commission co operate to place workers in private establishments as many are drafted into navy yards ordnance and other government plants and offices.
Thousands suffer from palpitations and irregular heart action. Build a strong heart and steady blood flow to feel younger and more active. Send name and address with six cents to CARDIANS Dept 556 A East Hampton Conn for a 50 cent bottle, with no obligation.
Major General Leonard Wood spoke at the American Cotton Waste Exchange urging the nation to enter full warfare, back universal military service, and mobilize the ambulance corps and Red Cross for Europe. The event raised over 22 dollars as Boston figures and officials, including Mayor Curley, attended and praised the effort.
Four vessels carrying full fares of flounders totaling 67 000 pounds arrived at the South Boston Fish Pier. Ground fishermen sold 14 300 pounds of scrod and 8500 pounds of cask. Mackerel fetches 50 cents a pound off Virginia coast signaling higher summer prices amid a fishermen strike.
Governor McCall telegrammed the Secretary of Labor urging a conference among state representatives and national officials to discuss forthcoming immigration regulations. He proposes New York as the meeting site and has heard from several state governors who agree to cooperate for clearer national state coordination under the new law.
The Newspaper Web Pressmen's Union, chaired by President Howard Smith, voted to buy $2000 in new government loan bonds. The union also announced its members serving the country will be exempt from certain financial obligations and return to their former jobs and ratings after service. The International Printing Pressmen's and Assistants' Union of America has adopted a similar policy.
Dr. James Chalmers superintendent of Fitchburg schools was yesterday named principal of Framingham Normal School by the state Board of Education to replace Henry Whittemore who has resigned.
Captain and Mrs Robert M Laven der of 20 Westminster Street West Somerville marked their golden wedding anniversary last night. They wed in Roxbury. The captain serves as warden of the port of Boston.
A mysterious aircraft loitered over Portsmouth late night with three circles near the Colonial Paper Company, then headed toward Dover. Navy Yard Commandant William Howard asked civil authorities to help locate the aviator and possible base in northern New Hampshire counties Strafford and Carroll. No hostile acts reported and night flying remains prohibited. guardsmen fired on the craft on its April 8 debut but it stayed out of range.
The first active crew of coast patrol scouts under Captain Walter H. Wheeler, Harvard football captain, will enter service next week. The submarine chaser Talofa, owned by E. E. Ellison, lies at Lawley’s yard in Neponset with Ellison’s son BE Ellison as gunner’s mate. Newton P. Darling, Harvard sculler, is quartermaster and Milton T. McDonald, Harvard pole vaulter, is engineer's mate.
Miss Mary Dooley of 8th Street Fall River reports indigestion nervousness and poor health improved after using Vitalitas. She says two bottles boosted her weight appetite and energy and calls it a natural drugless remedy from Woodward's Drug Store 102 Tremont Street.
The report lists radio operator and boatswain's mate Paul McCarthy. In the crew are Bill Snow an Harvard football linesman and wrestler Ralph Horween varsity full back John Burnham Philip Cate and Samuel P. Sears.
At its annual encampment in Providence Rhode Island the R I Sons of Veterans for Military Training passed a resolution in favor of universal military training and approved Congress declaring a state of war with Germany.
A Japanese Ice-mint product promises quick relief from corns and callouses. It cools and soothes feet, causes corns to shrivel and lift away, with no skin irritation. Available in drug stores.
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